The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation announced its 2014 AGA Research Scholars. The 2014 gastroenterologist scholars include:

11. Catherine J. Hunter, MD, of Northwestern University in Chicago12. Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS, of Columbia University in New York 13. Laura D. Wood, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore

45. Brian Bosworth, MD, has been elected president of the New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Dr. Bosworth is also the Anne and Ken Estabrook Clinical Scholar in Gastroenterology and an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

46. Mitchell Cohen, MD, has been elected the physician-in-chief of Children's Alabama and named chair of the pediatrics department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.

47. Ramon Colina, MD, has joined Intercoastal Medical Group. He will offer care at the practice's Sarasota, Fla., location.

48. Gregory Diamonti, MD, of Gastroenterology Associates in Hickory, N.C., earned the American College of Gastroenterology fellowship designation, FACG.

49. Myron Falchuk, MD, an AmSurg partner with the Boston Endoscopy Center, was recently featured in Jerome Groopman, MD's book How Doctors Think.

50. The Colon Cancer Alliance granted Marios Giannakis, MD, PhD, its first ever Blue Hope Research Awards. The award will provide him with funding to further his research on personalized care for colorectal cancer patients.

51. Nicholas Golden, MD, joined Cleveland Clinic.

52. The family of Eugene Greenberg, MD, has given Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill., a $1 million gift to honor his career. The donation will be used to establish the Dr. Eugene Greenberg Institute for Digestive Health.

53. Robert Hardi, MD, AGAF, CPI, of Capital Digestive Care, has been named president of the Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research.

55. Pharmaceutical contract research organization WCCT Global appointed John Hong, MD, MBA, as its head of GI Clinical Research.

56. Omar Khan, MD, joined Loyola University Health System. Dr. Khan will also serve as an assistant professor in the gastroenterology and nutrition division at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

57. Colorectal surgeon Marc Levitt, MD, will join the pediatric surgery department of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In his new position, Dr. Levitt will lead the establishment of a Center for Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction.